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The article gives the coordinates as 78°35′S 85°25′W
but on TerraWiki.org I found them listed as 78° 31' 59" S, 85° 37' 59" W or -78.533333, -85.633333 (WGS84)
Could an editor with more knowledge about this mountain comment on the relative merits of the current coordinates or the ones given at TerraWiki? — SaxTeacher (talk) 15:26, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
The article contains this line: "The first Welsh man to climb Vinson Massiff was Mark Lewis in 1997 (aged 22 - the youngest person to have done so at the time)" Is there a specific reason we are singling out the first Welshman? Why not the first American? Or the first Japanese? etc. If Mark Lewis was still the youngest person to have climbed the peak, then I could see why we would leave a reworded version of this in. However, since he no longer is (see Samantha Larson), I will remove it. Any objections? - Sarfa ( talk) 22:19, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Near the end of the article is the phrase "... 16,077 ft (4,900 m), eclipsing the earlier established heights recorded in 1959 and ...." It doesn't seem to make much sense to say that 16,077 eclipses measurements from 1959 when a 1959 measurement is given in the article as being something like 16,864 feet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.112.21.170 ( talk) 06:21, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
The article said it's 600 miles from the Pole, but I changed it to 1200 km (750 mi) because (a) 1200 km matches what some other sites state, and (b) calculating the distance using this tool indicates around 1200 km is more accurate.-- A bit iffy ( talk) 16:50, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
The intro says 700 have climbed the peak as of 2010. Towards the end of the article a figure of 2000 climbers is given. Which is it? 1812ahill ( talk) 02:50, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
At 16,000 feet in Antartica does it hold any low temperature records? Whats the coldest it's ever been there? 98.245.168.93 ( talk) 19:39, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Could you write about how the height was measured in the past. World Almanac says 16894 ft (5140m) [2011 edition], 16066 ft (4897m) [2017]. I’m pretty sure it was always cited (everywhere) as 5140m. Bit of a drop! When was it first revised? Does “mean sea-level” have anything to do with it?
NB: (as per Talk in 2008:) the article still (incorrectly) says at 16,077 ft, eclipsing the earlier established heights recorded in 1959 and 1979.
NB2: There’s no info in the article about the 1979 height. MBG02 ( talk) 02:25, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
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The article gives the coordinates as 78°35′S 85°25′W
but on TerraWiki.org I found them listed as 78° 31' 59" S, 85° 37' 59" W or -78.533333, -85.633333 (WGS84)
Could an editor with more knowledge about this mountain comment on the relative merits of the current coordinates or the ones given at TerraWiki? — SaxTeacher (talk) 15:26, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
The article contains this line: "The first Welsh man to climb Vinson Massiff was Mark Lewis in 1997 (aged 22 - the youngest person to have done so at the time)" Is there a specific reason we are singling out the first Welshman? Why not the first American? Or the first Japanese? etc. If Mark Lewis was still the youngest person to have climbed the peak, then I could see why we would leave a reworded version of this in. However, since he no longer is (see Samantha Larson), I will remove it. Any objections? - Sarfa ( talk) 22:19, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Near the end of the article is the phrase "... 16,077 ft (4,900 m), eclipsing the earlier established heights recorded in 1959 and ...." It doesn't seem to make much sense to say that 16,077 eclipses measurements from 1959 when a 1959 measurement is given in the article as being something like 16,864 feet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.112.21.170 ( talk) 06:21, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
The article said it's 600 miles from the Pole, but I changed it to 1200 km (750 mi) because (a) 1200 km matches what some other sites state, and (b) calculating the distance using this tool indicates around 1200 km is more accurate.-- A bit iffy ( talk) 16:50, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
The intro says 700 have climbed the peak as of 2010. Towards the end of the article a figure of 2000 climbers is given. Which is it? 1812ahill ( talk) 02:50, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
At 16,000 feet in Antartica does it hold any low temperature records? Whats the coldest it's ever been there? 98.245.168.93 ( talk) 19:39, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Could you write about how the height was measured in the past. World Almanac says 16894 ft (5140m) [2011 edition], 16066 ft (4897m) [2017]. I’m pretty sure it was always cited (everywhere) as 5140m. Bit of a drop! When was it first revised? Does “mean sea-level” have anything to do with it?
NB: (as per Talk in 2008:) the article still (incorrectly) says at 16,077 ft, eclipsing the earlier established heights recorded in 1959 and 1979.
NB2: There’s no info in the article about the 1979 height. MBG02 ( talk) 02:25, 27 September 2018 (UTC)